Youth, Schools, and Child Care

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (CBS19) -- A major new partnership was announced on Wednesday involving the City of Charlottesville, Albemarle County and the University of Virginia, with the goal of making local communities safer through the Project Safe Neighborhoods initiative.

The City of Charlottesville, Albemarle County, and the University of Virginia today announced a new regional partnership focused on working together to make local communities safer by working with Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN).

Congratulations to Aanya Sonkusare, a Henley Middle School student, for winning the UVA Equity Center's Voices of Democracy Writing Contest! Her hard work and dedication truly stood out, and we are all very proud of her achievement. Well done, Aanya!

Piedmont Virginia Community College teamed up with University of Virginia Equity Center to create the Orange Dot 6.0 Report. It highlights economic indicators that directly impact families across the Charlottesville region. “There are so many families struggling in our…

The Equity Center, the Karsh Institute of Democracy and a panel of expert judges have selected the winners of the “Voices of Democracy: What Democracy Means to Me” writing contest, which was open to 6th through 12th-grade students enrolled in public, private, or homeschool…

The Starr Hill Pathways (SHP) Tutoring Program aims to provide emergent bilinguals and other students who need academic support with linguistic and instructional support.